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Re: Off Topic: No DSL or Cable??



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Actually, I thought it was a pretty valid question. I live in the SF Bay
Area, not Bulgaria, in a very remote canyon. No cable, too far for DSL and
the number of phone lines available to my home is maxed out. I too would
love to hear of new alternatives. Not everyone lives in downtown USA.

William

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> Wow! I don't mean to be insulting or anything but do you have indoor
> plumbing? Have you heard the latest fad? Movies with "talking!" (Just
> teasing you :) Being a lifelong technophile I can't imagine anyone on less
> bandwidth than DSL except my mom and Bulgaria.
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> Try this: Write a paragraph of what you want to do this weekend and read
it
> to your partner, dog, mirror whatever. But read only one word at a time
> every 8 seconds. Then, read it as fast as you can or better yet, just hold
> it up in front of the dog's nose. Method 1 is your bandwidth. Method 2 is
> DSL. I have quad-T1 lines at work connected to the backbone. Several grand
> a month and other than the government, one of the fastest connections
> around. I have DSL at home for $50 a month. I have a hard time telling the
> difference between the two. Of course work allows 100 people at a time but
> at home, I surf on two computers with multiple browser windows and talk on
> the phone all at the same time while in the background I'm listening to
> free internet Baroque music on Spinner.com. And I've got an old Dell
laptop
> and a no-name desktop.
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> The Fat Lady sang and already went home to bed.
> Try it. You'll like it!
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>                     "Snap ."
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>                                          Subject:     Off Topic: No DSL or
Cable??
>                     02/15/2001
>                     06:06 AM
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> I would like to know the following from the group.
> I dont have cable or DSL and am still in the ancient 56K status...has
> anyone
> ventured into other fast bandwidth modes and how has it been?
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> Thanks, snapp
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